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"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"Support is very responsive."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The documentation could be better."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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